Dialects, Emojis, and Engagement: A Corpus-Based Study of Arabic Linguistic Features in TikTok Comments
This study employed a mixed-methods corpus-based discourse analysis to examine the linguistic features of Arabic used in TikTok comments. The data consisted of 2,160 Arabic comments collected from 36 TikTok videos published between September 2025 and January 2026. After data cleaning, the final corpus contained 28,742...